By Gavin Newsom may want to reread the Constitutions. The Department of Homeland Security announced it will defy a newly signed California law that prohibits U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wearing masks during operations, calling the measure both unconstitutional and dangerous.
“To be clear: We will NOT comply with [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban,” DHS said in a post on Twitter, underscoring its rejection of the law signed by Newsom on Saturday.
Officials argued that protective gear is critical at a time when ICE agents have faced a dramatic surge in violence.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) vehemently condemns California Governor Gavin Newsom for signing the “No Secret Police Act,” which further demonizes law enforcement and attempts to ban law enforcement from being able to protect their identities to keep them from being targeted by cartels, criminal rings, terrorists, and doxxed online.
This stunt comes as our ICE officers are facing a more than 1000% increase in assaults against them, including vehicles being used as weapons towards them, and doxing campaigns targeting federal officers and their families. When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers, and rapists. Our officers also wear vests marked with ICE/ERO or Homeland Security and are flanked by vehicles marked with the name of the department.
“Governor Gavin Newsom is fanning the flames of division, hatred and dehumanization of our law enforcement. At a time that ICE law enforcement faces a 1,000% increase in assaults and their family members are being doxxed and targeted, the sitting Governor of California signs unconstitutional legislation that strips law enforcement of protections in a disgusting, diabolical fundraising and PR stunt,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “He signed this piece of legislation the same day his team made a menacing threat against Secretary Kristi Noem online. The violent rhetoric and demonization must stop. To be crystal clear: we will not abide by Newsom’s unconstitutional ban.”
Despite these obstacles from Governor Newsom, ICE continues to put the safety of Californians first and remove violent criminal illegal aliens from the streets of California. Below are examples of some of the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens arrested in California since January 20, 2025, who Governor Newsom’s sanctuary policies protect at the expense of the American people.
Newsom defended the law as a matter of transparency, contending that masks shield federal officers from scrutiny, noted The Hill. “That’s Trump’s America, but that’s not the America we’ve grown up in. And so we are pushing back,” he said during remarks at a California high school. He added that ICE agents would no longer be “hidden from accountability” under state law.
He also joined Stephen Colbert on Tuesday and appeared to call for more attacks against ICE, calling them “masked men jumping out of cars.”
Just last night, Gavin Newsom was on Colbert using absurd, inflammatory rhetoric to attack ICE as “authoritarian” secret police.
“Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing… ‘is authoritarianism hyperbolic?’ Bullsh*t we’re being hyperbolic.” pic.twitter.com/5PhOf3hSPJ
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) September 24, 2025
Less than 24 hours after his appearance, a shooter in Dallas launched an attack on an ICE facility, killing or injuring multiple people. The New York Time reported that “the gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and left behind ammunition that bore the phrase “ANTI-ICE” in blue writing, according to officials.
No law enforcement agents were hurt in the shooting, and investigators released few details about the shooter or his possible motive. But officials suggested that it was a targeted attack aimed at immigration enforcement agents: Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, posted an image of the ammunition on social media, saying that an initial review of the evidence indicated an ideological motive.
Three people familiar with the investigation identified the gunman as Joshua Jahn. One of the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly, gave the gunman’s age as 29. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the gunman had opened fire from a nearby rooftop, describing him as a ‘sniper’ who shot ‘indiscriminately,’ including at a van in an entrance area where the victims were struck.”
This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities.
While the investigation is… pic.twitter.com/SMOyxiKLqA
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 24, 2025
Fox News noted that “Wednesday’s shooting happened only miles from Alvarado, Texas, where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting officers. In total, 16 people have been charged in the ambush-style shooting of an Alvarado police officer who was responding to reports of vandalism at the facility.
‘These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off,” Patel wrote. “It has to end, and the FBI and our partners will lead these investigative efforts to ensure that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice,'” he said.
According to DHS, federal agents arrested 5,000 immigrants living illegally in Los Angeles between June and August as part of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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